Clomiphene and high order multiples “Go round the shops in any big town. There are goods worth millions and you cannot estimate the human labor expended on them, and look whether in nine-tenths of these shops there is anything for the use of men. All the luxuries of life are demanded and maintained by women. “Count all the factories. An […]
Tag Archives: sexuality
Tolstoy. Who Else?
17-Mar-10The Last Station.
17-Mar-10http://nghomes.com/2021/05/31/bitcoin-exchange-wall-street Tolstoy is a figure I have always kept at arm’s length; beyond reading Anna Karenina (easily the greatest novel ever written; really no other deserves to be put in the same paragraph with it; I hated it) and the most famous short stories, I have mostly avoided him. That he was full of hatred and […]
Those Who Live By the Law…
18-Oct-09The man in the photo with the Leviticus quotation tattooed on his arm, who clearly sees it as a justification for violence against gays, got some great treatment from a pastor who reads Andrew Sullivan’s blog: Too bad the guy with the passage from Leviticus tattooed on his arm didn’t read the next chapter: “You […]
All’s Well That Ends Well.
10-Sep-09All’s Well That Ends Well is one of Shakespeare’s “problem plays,” those plays whose resolution is most unsatisfactory; the poet’s justice seeming to us injustice. The Count Roussillon, whose father died when he was a minor, became a ward of the French king, who thereupon had the power to bestow him in marriage; and the […]
Rousseau begins his Confessions with a most daring preface, which it is well to offer here to the reader: I have resolved on an enterprise which has no precedent, and which, once complete, will have no imitator. My purpose is to display to my kind a portrait in every way true to nature, and the […]
Sexuality and Church Teaching.
06-Jan-09American bishops just met in conference recently and issued a document calling on Catholics to live upright, Christian lives in accordance with the teaching of the Church. The document mentioned in particular the great disparity between the precepts of Catholicism and the actual practice of Catholics. The issues mentioned were the familiar ones: abortion, […]
Abortion III – The Character of Abortion
20-Nov-08In my two previous essays on abortion, I discussed abortion and the vote, and abortion and the Catholic hierarchy. In both of them I took for granted that abortion is a sin and that it should not occur. I will not backtrack from that position. But many people feel much less certain about the […]
Solving the Humanity Problem with the Criminal Code.
03-Feb-10It is tried over and over again – and it fails every time. The Law, as says Paul, “is powerless to oppose the flesh.” But still the temptation remains to fix it all with a law. The most effective mode of practicing this heresy, of course, is to pick a minority and enforce the law […]